Goats are putting the pedal to the metal, or in this case, the hoof to the wheel, at the Caldwell Zoo in Tyler.

Parrots are already known for their mimicry of transitive actions, such as grabbing an object. Because they are highly social creatures with brains that are large relative to the size of their bodies, ...

Seeing animals in photos or on a screen is one thing, but experiencing them in person is something else entirely. Some ...

When we talk about the strongest creatures on land, the elephant inevitably strides to the top of the list. But what makes ...

A House committee will hold a hearing this week scrutinizing whether National Institutes of Health animal research amounts to ...

Where does fear come from? American psychologist John Watson wanted to find out — so, in the name of science, he tried to ...

Can fish feel pain? The debate rages among scientists as to whether fish do, in fact, feel pain or are just reacting ...

The animal was among 234 new species discovered in the past year in the Greater Mekong region, which includes Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam.

The advent of agriculture 12,000 years ago increased the availability of affordable, energy-dense, palatable food, resulting in a substantial effect on the evolutionary physiology of hunger that ...

Biochemical and physiological mechanisms of adaptation of organisms to the marine environment. Special emphasis is on biological responses to temperature, salinity, carbon dioxide, pH and bicarbonate ...

In 1965 and 1969, the University of Wisconsin-Madison hosted two international, ground-breaking symposia on “The Physiology and Biochemistry ... based biological questions. For example, how do the ...

Like a growing number of pet owners in the US, she liked the idea of giving her pets raw food, which she believes is healthier since it was less processed than dry kibble and perhaps more similar to ...